Ukrainian mom buys powerful hunting rifle, vows to ‘fight for Kiev’

Nypost ^ | 01/26/2022 | Yaron Steinbach

[ChicagoConservative27]

A Ukrainian mother-of-three has armed herself with a powerful hunting rifle, vowing to “fight for Kiev” amid fears of a Russian invasion.

“As a mother I do not want my children to inherit Ukraine’s problems, or have these threats passed on to them. It is better that I deal with this now,” Mariana Zhaglo, 52, told the Times of London in her Kiev kitchen, where she posed with the high-caliber weapon.

[ChicagoConservative27]

American Karen's would rather surrender to the Russians because guns are bad.

[kiryandil]

neocon war porn

[Lurkinanloomin]

Looks like an AR variant, probably 5.56mm or 5.45mm, not exactly high powered.

[lightman]

[PGR88]

All part of the propaganda campaign.

[rktman]

For more commentary on this issue:

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/4032721/posts

:-}

[FlingWingFlyer]

I wonder if she had to buy liability insurance and pay “a fee” for the far left commie piggies to distribute to “da po folks” to pay their cellphone bills.

[kiryandil]

We need to weigh in with Samuel Clemens' The War Prayer...

The War Prayer

[Nextrush]

A fake news story.

Maria Zakharova of the Russian Foreign Ministry noted yesterday that Mariana Zhaglo is an actual member of the terrtiorial defense forces of Ukraine not just a citizen taking up arms to defend Ukraine.

She is also wearing a uniform supplied by the British.

https://tass.com/world/1393057

[whitney69]

Same old effort to sensationalize a story. She of course is almost worthless with the weapon and can in no way stop what is going to happen, either way. But it sells newspapers.

wy69

[ClearCase_guy]

It’s 2022 — a “News Story” is pretty much by definition a Fake News Story.

[FlingWingFlyer]

THAT’S what I’m talkin’ about! I’ll bet that picture has Snowflake heads exploding all over Amerika. I’ll bet she isn’t required to buy “liability insurance” and pay a fine to some freeloader agency.

[MercyFlush]

Looks like an AR-10 to me. Likely chambered in .308 which will blow the lungs out of any Russian puke stupid enough to come within range of this woman.

[Yo-Yo]

A "powerful hunting rifle" chambered in .223 Remington (5.56 NATO.)

Good choice, Mom, but bad call on the article writer's part to call it "powerful." It's an intermediate cartridge.

[Sirius Lee]

Good for her. Then we don’t need to involve American blood or treasure. America (turns and waves to Yukes and Russkies). “Okay, you kids have fun.” (walks away)

[Tilted Irish Kilt]

She has better 'gun control' and 'finger control ' than Alec Baldwin
I hope she wraps that weapon in snow white sheets on order to blend into the snowey background.

[Sacajaweau]

In Ukraine, you can buy a gun for hunting only...not for personal use/protection.

[TexasGator]

.223 = high caliber?

[Ken522]

Zbroyar Z-15 carbine is a .223 .... but she did attend a sniper course ....

[TexasGator]

“Looks like an AR-10 to me. Likely chambered in .308 “

AR-15, .223